AP Human Geo Unit `1 Vocab Part 2

Hearth

The region from which innovative ideas originate

Globalization

Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope

Transnational Corporation

A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters or shareholders are located.

Possibilism

The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives.

Environmental Determinism

A nineteenth and early twentieth century approach to the study of geography which argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. Geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activities.

Relocation Diffusion

The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another.

Distance Decay

The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

Stimulus diffusion

The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected.

Concentration

The spread of something over a given area. Clustered or Dispersed

Hierarchical Diffusion

the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places

Distribution

The arrangement of something across Earth's surface.

Pattern

The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area.

Contagious Diffusion

The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

Space time Compression

The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation systems

Density

The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area.

Connections

Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space.

Diffusion

The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time.

Expansion Diffusion

The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process.